Birth

Herald rating: * *

Ten years after her husband's death, Anna (Nicole Kidman) is about to re-marry Joseph (Danny Huston). At a birthday party for her mother (Lauren Bacall), 10-year-old Sean (Cameron Bright) turns up and rather spoils the party by announcing that he is the dear departed.

Understandably, Joseph is not best pleased, even less so when Anna moves the kid into her house, begins to believe his story, and falls in love with him.

In short - thankfully - the kind of plodding, doom-laden psycho-tale that gave Swedish movies a bad name in the 70s.

* DVD, video rental today